POV shots

[Tom Mes]

>the impossible POV shot is becoming a gimmick shot with a lot of directors.
>David Fincher is one of those. Few attempt or are successful at the attempt
>to utilize the technique to show the audience something about the character
>or theme. Kitano is one who still utlizes this as a brush stroke.

Shinya Tsukamoto has an interesting use for flashbacks in GEMINI/S?SEIJI, 
which uses the same concept. From a shot of character A he cuts to a 
flashback, indicating that the character is reminiscing. However, the shot 
he cuts to after the flashback is of character B, creating a link between 
the characters. Since the film (like many of Tsukamoto's movies) uses a love 
triangle plot, he doesn't stop there: he cuts from that shot of character B 
to another flashback, at the end of which he cuts to character C. Thus, the 
pasts of the three characters are shown to be intertwined.

Tom

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